Anthology Part 2 prose: Significant Cigarettes, Whistle and I'll Come to You, Night

Lev, a widower from Eastern Europe, is travelling by coach to London to look for work. He has left his young daughter, Maya, with his mother, and he is grieving for his wife, Marina.
On the long journey he smokes to steady himself and is drawn into conversation with Lydia, a fellow passenger who speaks English.
Ideas: migration, grief, loneliness and the small comforts that link us to home (the cigarettes). Methods: third-person narration close to Lev's thoughts, memories that interrupt the present, and quiet, observed detail.

From the chapter of that name. Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, is staying alone at isolated Eel Marsh House with a borrowed dog, Spider. After a night of terrifying sounds, he hears a whistle out on the marsh, as if someone were calling a dog. Spider runs onto the marsh and begins to sink into the mud. Arthur struggles to pull her out, then sees the woman in black watching from the house and collapses.
Methods: first-person narration by an older Arthur looking back; Gothic setting of fog, marsh and an empty house; sound used to build fear; tension between rational explanations and the supernatural. The title echoes M R James's ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.

An older narrator remembers being a teenage girl recovering from an operation to remove her appendix. Unable to sleep, she wanders the house at night and is frightened by sudden, disturbing thoughts that she might harm her younger sister.
One night her father finds her outside. She confesses her fear, and he responds calmly, telling her that people sometimes have thoughts like that. His calm acceptance frees her from the fear.
Methods: first-person retrospective narration that mixes the girl's feelings with the adult's understanding; a quiet, understated style; the night-time setting reflecting secrecy and fear; a gentle turning point in the conversation with her father.